An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.
{
"nvd_published_at": "2020-12-03T17:15:00Z",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-20"
],
"severity": "LOW",
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-09T22:29:34Z",
"github_reviewed": true
}